Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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Sunday Morning Live 10 November 2024

In this episode, I explore Bitcoin's recent surge in value and its implications for personal financial health, contrasting it with traditional financial markets. I address listener questions about media representations of Jesus, reflecting on shows like "The Chosen" while emphasizing the importance of quality in content production.

I discuss buyer's remorse and the distinction between essential and luxury spending, based on my frugal experiences. The conversation shifts to wealth distribution and the challenges posed by 'woke' culture, examining its societal effects.
I also reflect on the realities of streaming as a career and the misconceptions surrounding it. The episode concludes with a reminder to prioritize meaningful experiences over financial accumulation, highlighting the impact of our choices on personal happiness and connection to the world.

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Transcript
00:00:00Good morning everybody! 10th of November 2024. Hey! How's everyone doing? In the land of
00:00:08Bitcoin! How's everyone doing? Gonna take you higher, higher! That's right, my friends.
00:00:18Almost 111,000 Canadian up 4.8k in 24 hours. Did you? I mean, you know, I'm not obsessive
00:00:26about it or anything like that, but I will say that occasionally before I go to sleep
00:00:30I like to get the good dreams of high spikes and checketh the priceth of the Bitcoineth.
00:00:36And every now and then it's a whiplash! Whiplash! So, thank you! Thank you to everyone who voted
00:00:45for higher Bitcoin rather than, I don't know, World War 3. That's a plus. I'm not saying
00:00:50that World War 3 wouldn't help the price of Bitcoin, but it's nice to not have the associated
00:00:56mass deaths. So, that's a plus. A massive, deep, and a good plus. And isn't it nice that
00:01:02Bitcoin is pumping? I like to pump it, pump it! And all of the regular old trad-fi markets
00:01:12are closed. They can't do nothing about it! But Bitcoin is always open! Always open.
00:01:24All right. Let's get straight to your questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems, criticisms,
00:01:32whatever is on your mind. Thank you for your donation. Ikpuhzzzz, 2020. I can't see the
00:01:39Z without thinking of the ZX80, which was an original. What was it? Sinclair? 2K computer?
00:01:45Oof! All right. Did you have a look at the TV show The Chosen about the life of Jesus?
00:01:51I did try. I did not. It did not take for me. It's like the Rome miniseries. It just
00:01:57did not take for me. It did not take for me. The depth and power of the life of Jesus would
00:02:02be very hard. Hey, maybe I should try it, right? But the depth and power of the life
00:02:06of Jesus would be almost impossible to write. And it does not. It did not work for me. Any
00:02:11thoughts on the Brendan Fraser movie The Whale? Your live streams over this whole summer have
00:02:15been hitting it out of the park. Your perfect audio for a good gym workout session. Thank
00:02:18you. I appreciate that. I did watch a little bit of The Whale, but it's too depressing.
00:02:23And Brendan Fraser, of course, criticized a Hollywood executive for inappropriate touching,
00:02:28and I assumed that the only way he could get his career back would be to do some kind of
00:02:31humiliation ritual, like playing this character. He's a great actor and all of that. But boy,
00:02:36talk about the price of fame. You know, that guy just wrecked his entire body doing all
00:02:40of this. He's so fit and healthy. So. All right. Good morning, Stefan and community.
00:02:46No questions this week. Just a note of thanks for your work. You are a gem to the human
00:02:49race. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. Think clearly. All right. Good morning.
00:02:56The sun has finally come out where I live, taking kids to play in the forest. We'll listen
00:02:58later. Totally. That's a good priority, man. Well done. That's a good priority. Morning,
00:03:04James. Good morning. Bitcoin new high. Oh, yeah. I think I think I noticed that. I think
00:03:14I noticed that it's you know, it's just interesting because there's so much of investing that
00:03:20has to do with a lot of research and and figuring things out. And most of Bitcoin investing
00:03:25is just. Keep your hand away from the keyboard. What you just need to what you need to do
00:03:33is you need to have a special computer for trading Bitcoin, selling Bitcoin, and it needs
00:03:37to have about 4000 volts going through the all metal keyboard. So you try to sell. That's
00:03:46what it needs to be. That's what it needs to be. My net worth has gone up 40 percent
00:03:52plus this past week or well, last Wednesday, I'm about to donate on your website. Thank
00:03:56you, Steph. Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. That's very kind. Thank
00:04:00you. Thank you. Thank you. If you know if some of my analyses have helped your pockets
00:04:05over the years. You know, sharing the love is not irrational. It could, in fact, be positive.
00:04:12So sharing the love is great. It's great. All right. Thank you, Dylan. I appreciate
00:04:19that. Let's go check on the various places where we can get chatty chats. My God, what
00:04:28is it with slow software these days? Holy crap, stick doodle head. Holy. You just want
00:04:32to take these developers and wood chip them Fargo style. So when I print out my questions,
00:04:38I have a bunch of questions to answer. When I print out my questions, I have saved a little
00:04:44setting on my printer so that doesn't print double sided and, you know, prints on a larger
00:04:47font so I can read the questions if I'm doing video without having my glasses on. And I
00:04:52swear to God, it's like four to five seconds to bring up the print options dialog box on
00:04:58an i7 computer with 32 gigs of RAM. I remember when I bought 32 K of RAM to add to eight
00:05:06to get 40 K. I got it from a guy in a parking lot. Hey, man. Hey, kid, you look like you
00:05:11need some memory. So, yeah. And it's just wild to me. That. That stuff all worked fast.
00:05:23I mean, think of Qdos, bring up a print dialog. Boom. Right there. Windows 3.1. That was the
00:05:29first big one, right? 32 bit disk access. Let's go. And that stuff would just you get
00:05:35whiplash from the user interface now with computers a zillion times faster. It's like,
00:05:41hey, can I bring up a print dialog box? Anything? Bueller? Anything? No. Oh, there it is. Oh,
00:05:50wait. No, I need to change the tap like I programmed. Back in Access 2.0, I programmed
00:05:57a tab interface. I had to do it by hand. It was really, really complicated. I programmed
00:06:00a tab interface. Now there's tabs built into Windows. But back in the day, they weren't.
00:06:04So you just click and it would flip, click and flip, click and flip. Well, actually,
00:06:07I preloaded all the screen. I preloaded all the subforms and and hidden showed them based upon
00:06:12what you clicked on in the tabs. And it was like instantaneous. And this is back when
00:06:21a Pentium was hot shit. Not 486SX. You want 486DX with the math coprocessor for things that
00:06:29you'll never use. Does it make Wing Commander run faster? No, then I don't care. So why? Why?
00:06:36Why? Why is everything so slow? What is the story with computers? I mean, is it just backward
00:06:41compatibility is causing slow motion sickness? Come on, James D. Kirk. Even he spoke fast from
00:06:54time to time. Windows XP was last good Windows. Yeah, it's just so slow. I've upgraded to the
00:07:04new software and the old versions worked better. Spyware ain't gonna run itself. Yeah,
00:07:09isn't that wild, eh? You know, like you get this little, you get this little thing on Outlook. Hey,
00:07:14do you want to try the new Outlook? Sure. I like new things. Oh, ads. Oh, OK. You could mention
00:07:21that. You could mention that. Would you like to try the new version of Outlook where you have to
00:07:27pay to not see ads? No, I really don't, in fact. Oh, I remember Windows 2000, man. Windows 2000
00:07:37was glorious. It was so fast. It was so fast. And boy, I didn't even want to upgrade to Windows XP.
00:07:48I really didn't. But I had to. I had a Zenvision M portable audio player that wasn't recognized
00:07:54under Windows 2000. So I had to upgrade and just move to Linux 10 times faster. Yes. Yes. I'm too
00:08:01old to learn a new OS. Sorry. I just have time now. Time. I'm just aware of time. Time. Passage
00:08:08of time. You know, I have a computer that I use to record my call-in shows. It's eight years old.
00:08:16It's creaky. The battery life sucks now. And of course, it's going to fail at some point,
00:08:21probably right in the middle of a very important call. And I'm like, OK, I could get a new
00:08:27computer because eight years, that's a long time for a computer to be used, right? I could get a
00:08:31new computer, but now I've got to spend a couple of hours setting it all up. That used to be fun.
00:08:37Now it's, you know, when you're young, you have an infinite amount of time, so you don't really
00:08:41think about it. But when you're pushing 60, right, you're like, ah, there are limits. I can see.
00:08:47I can count the gumballs left in the machine. It's not just, hey, guess the number of gumballs.
00:08:51It's like, oh, yeah, there are 20 to 25, maybe 30 gumballs.
00:08:57So, yeah, I'll write it into the grave, that computer. It's a nice little computer, but,
00:09:03yeah. Crazy, man. Crazy. All right. Thank you for your support.
00:09:12So, Surface Pro 4. No, it's not a 4. This is an old Acer computer from, like,
00:09:19yeah, it's early 2017. I bought it now. It's late 2024 or something.
00:09:25Yeah, I have a Surface Pro 2, but it's sludgy, man. It just slows down. Just stuff slows down.
00:09:31And, of course, in the past, I'd be like, oh, I'll just reinstall Windows. And it's like,
00:09:34no, I don't have the time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that. So, I just let it sludge.
00:09:39And, you know, you bring up, you bring up the, what is killing the processor? It's a pretty
00:09:43fast processor, an i7, right? So, you bring up the task manager sought by CPU, and it's like,
00:09:51okay, why? Why are these interrupts? Why are they doing? Why? Right?
00:09:57You've still got an Acer going from 2012. Excellent. Excellent. Maybe I'll get another
00:10:01half decade out of it. Yeah, Acer, they make some pretty solid, solid machines.
00:10:06Windows to Linux on my personal computers five years ago, I never looked back.
00:10:09When I'm forced to use it to work, I suffer greatly. I have a Linux virtual
00:10:12machine that I played around with. Yeah, Acer is hardy. And this is a computer that's dented
00:10:17because I dropped it. It's dented on the corner. So, but I like it because it's got a stand that
00:10:22is a handle. So, when I'm walking around, right, I got a 2008 ThinkPad with Linux. Wow,
00:10:28that is immortal beloved. That is immortal beloved. All right. Anyway, let's get to the
00:10:35meat of the matter. So, somebody asked me, and, you know, let me know if this would be
00:10:41an interesting topic. Hit me with a Y or an N if somebody asked me how to avoid
00:10:48buyer's remorse. How do you avoid regretting your purchasing decisions?
00:10:55Right? Do you have this? Do you feel like you wasted your money? Do you feel like
00:10:59you've bought badly? Do you feel like, what's your relationship with spending
00:11:03and saving and so on? Right? I'm just curious if this is an interesting topic to you because
00:11:10yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes.
00:11:18So, I've thought quite a bit about money over the, I'm fascinated by money. I'll tell you straight
00:11:25up. I'm fascinated by money. I love knowing people's finances. I love how do you survive?
00:11:31Because that was always the big mystery to me. How do you survive? Like when people are like,
00:11:35oh, you know, the women, like the suspicious women who are like, yes, I've been traveling for
00:11:41the last year from place to place. I don't have any particular job and I have 18 followers on
00:11:45Instagram. It's like, okay, I get it. You're not traveling. You're riding a carousel from
00:11:51country to country. So, with regards to spending, there's this kind of puritanical thing that
00:12:01happens where you say, okay, here's the essentials and here's the things that are luxuries, right?
00:12:07Here are the essentials and here are the things that are luxuries. Now, I lived in a tent for a
00:12:11year in sometimes minus 40 degree weather. So, anything above that is luxury. I mean, I really,
00:12:18really lived hard, low, deep, mean, and lean to the ground, Nanook of the North, but without the
00:12:24igloo. So, I'd lived in a Jack London novel or an Andy's airplane crash novel. So, and I remember,
00:12:33I just thought about this the other day when I got the question and there was a guy, a friend of mine
00:12:37had a house and I needed a place to stay for a month and the rooms were all full because he had
00:12:42roommates, but he put me in the attic and the attic was like dusty and there was crap and so on.
00:12:49And so, to me, hey, I'm not Raskolnikov style living in an attic. I'm not Harry Potter under
00:12:55the stairs. So, anything above that to me, like anything above the bare minimum is luxury.
00:12:59And of course, I'm sure you guys have had this too. When I was a student, I lived very, very lean and
00:13:04poor, right? I lived very, very lean and poor and you just get the big vat of pasta and sauce,
00:13:11you make it, you freeze it and you just thaw it and you just live on, right, novel. You just live
00:13:18on the sort of bare minimum kind of thing. And I used to, there was a student newspaper that would
00:13:24give you two for one subway. So, I'd go and order a big subway and this is back when you could heap
00:13:28on the toppings and they didn't charge you more. So, I'd get two for one, 12 inches and then that
00:13:33would be four dinners because you cut them in half. And so, you just live as cheap and lean
00:13:39as possible. So, to me, anything above that could be considered a luxury. So, I don't sort of divide
00:13:48things in my mind between essentials and luxuries. And much though I'm not a huge fan of Starbucks
00:13:55as a company for pretty obvious reasons, but they do make a crack addict nitro cold brew that is
00:14:02God's gift to caffeine addicts. He points at himself. So, once a month or if I'm around a
00:14:08Starbucks, I'll pick up a nitro cold brew and they're like, I don't know, five bucks or something
00:14:13like that. And so, I was like, is it a luxury? Sure, it's a luxury. Can I live without it? Yes,
00:14:22but it does give me joy. Now, trading money for happiness is a pretty good deal.
00:14:29Trading money for happiness is a pretty good deal. Now, my general philosophy is this. If
00:14:35something makes me happy, it's not too expensive and it's not like every day, I'll do it. But,
00:14:41I will not spend to avoid unhappiness. I don't know if you've ever had this,
00:14:45if you're sort of feeling down or something like that and then you're like, well, I could just go
00:14:49buy something and set it up. You have some technology thing, like I need to replace the
00:14:52light behind me because it stopped working and stuff like that. So,
00:14:58I won't spend money to avoid unhappiness, but if it's, for me, it's not super expensive. It's not
00:15:04that often and it does bring me happiness. And of course, the rarity is what helps bring
00:15:09the happiness, right? If I had a nitro cold brew, God help me, probably have a heart attack. If I
00:15:13had a nitro cold brew every day, it wouldn't bring me that much happiness, but once in a while
00:15:17is a nice treat. So, I view that as fine. So, if you are spending money on things that
00:15:27generally gain in value, that's a good thing. If you're spending money on things that lose value,
00:15:33then that's fine as long as it gets you some happiness. And you can't buy love,
00:15:41but you can buy happiness. But the virtue, hopefully, that gets you the love also gets
00:15:44you some success in the money-making world. So, you can't buy love, but you can buy happiness.
00:15:50I'm straight up with that. You can. And there's things that I don't particularly care to
00:16:00spend money on. I was never a car person, although I got to tell you, I think self-driving electric
00:16:06cars are the shit. They're just fantastic. But the problem is, for me now, it's like,
00:16:11even if I wanted to upgrade, which I don't really want to do, I think about that and it's like,
00:16:15oh, okay. So, then I got to sell the old car, and then I got to research the thing,
00:16:19I got to test drive it, find things out, I got to buy and transfer, learn all the new, blah,
00:16:22blah, blah. It's like, I don't have time for that. I'll drive. Like, I drove my first car
00:16:27literally into the ground. It had to be towed to the lot. They gave me 500 bucks as pity money.
00:16:34And my new car, it's not even new, it's pretty, pretty old by now, but I'll just drive that into
00:16:39the ground too, because, right, it's just about the time to spend new stuff.
00:16:48So, spending money to buy happiness is a good thing. I remember going occasionally on vacations,
00:16:57and if I wasn't seeing anyone and my friends were busy, I'd just go on vacation on my own.
00:17:01I have great memories of that. I have great memories of going on vacation on my own. I
00:17:05remember flying to the Dominican Republic for like two weeks after I had a big push at work,
00:17:11and it was glorious. I sat on the beach, I read philosophy, I was going through a big Nietzsche
00:17:16and Jung phase, and then I played beach volleyball for hours a day, and went for dinner and chatted
00:17:21with people, and it was just lovely. It was great. Now, I wouldn't remember those two weeks if I
00:17:25hadn't spent that money. I wouldn't remember those two weeks. I wouldn't have the couple
00:17:28of photos that I have of that trip. So, yeah, that's spending money to get good memories,
00:17:34spending money for happiness, seems to me a good investment. It seems to me a good investment.
00:17:43You can't take your money with you, and when you get old and decrepit, then you want to have
00:17:50memories of things you did that were fun and cool and memorable. You don't want these copy-paste
00:17:54days, which is when you're just on the hamster wheel of productivity and you don't buy particular
00:17:59time slices of beautiful memories. Then it's just like one of those ping-pong ball days,
00:18:03you know, like you're living inside a ping-pong ball. There's no cloud differentiation. There's
00:18:07no breaks. It's just white ping-pong over sky, whereas one of the beautiful things you see,
00:18:13breaks of the clouds, sunbeams going. I remember when I was a kid seeing a plane fly over my school
00:18:18and it was going in and out of the clouds, going visible and invisible. I still remember that just
00:18:22as a beautiful thing. So, you want breaks in the routine. You want breaks in the routine,
00:18:26and a lot of times for breaks in the routine, you got to spend some coin. It's worth it. When
00:18:31you get old, you want to look back. Now, when you're old, your memories keep you company,
00:18:35right? When you're old, your memories keep you company. Obviously, you have people in your life
00:18:38too, but you want to look back on a life with as few regrets as possible. If you just copy-pasted
00:18:43your days rather than buying some break in the clouds, sunlight streaming, Mormon tabernacle
00:18:48choir, beams on the land memories, then you're going to look back and say, well, are you just
00:18:54going to sit there and stare at your bank account when you're too old to spend anything on fun?
00:18:58Are you going to sit there and look at your bank account and say, well, having those numbers there
00:19:02is really, really worth having no particular differentiating memories in my life.
00:19:09I sacrificed happiness for bits and burps and beeps on a computer. That is not a wise thing.
00:19:17Now, you can say, ah, yes, but you can leave your money to your kids. Absolutely. For sure. But what
00:19:21do you want to leave for your kids? A bunch of money or an exciting life that they had some
00:19:28adventures in? There was a time for this show, I traveled more than half the year.
00:19:35I was going to go to speeches. I went, of course, to the Australia thing. I went to Poland, went to
00:19:39Hong Kong, went to the European Union in Brussels, gave speeches. I went to Florida to give speeches.
00:19:47I was just traveling all the time. My daughter and I had a blast doing those things. We have
00:19:54very vivid memories of being hunted through the streets in Australia. You think of the poor
00:20:03young people whose lives were completely wrecked and destroyed because of old age,
00:20:08querulous paranoia during the COVID era. Those days, they look back on those years,
00:20:14or sometimes 18 months, or sometimes even two years,
00:20:20and they can't remember them at all. It's just copy-paste, copy-paste. You look back on your
00:20:25life, the repetition evaporates, and all you have to look back on are the peaks and valleys.
00:20:33As you look back, the valleys were never as deep as you thought, but the peaks were great.
00:20:39Right? Nostalgia is just sadness erased or eroded by time.
00:20:52I mean, I even have nostalgia for my teenage years these days, which was a very difficult
00:20:59time, but it was a very memorable time. It was a very memorable time. I think it is worth spending
00:21:05money on memories. It is worth spending money on vivid experiences. To save at the expense of joy
00:21:16is to erase endless amounts of your time through blind repetition.
00:21:24I mean, if somebody says to me, oh, what were you doing at this particular time in 2018? It's like,
00:21:30oh, yes, I was touring Australia. I was touring Australia. Very vivid time,
00:21:34very powerful, very wild, great crowds, great danger, bomb threats, death threats, you name it,
00:21:39and getting ripped off by the organizers. Just a whole bunch of things, right? A whole bunch of
00:21:44things, right? Very vivid. Very, very vivid stuff. So, have that. Have that so you look back upon
00:21:56your life and it's not just a sort of endless copy-paste days of works and video games. I mean,
00:22:03it's funny because I even remember vivid things in video games. There used to be this server
00:22:07called GWAR's server that ran Unreal Tournament, and I still remember very vivid. We'd play
00:22:14Facing Worlds. I remember just winning in a battle that was going on forever, getting to the flag
00:22:20with three hit points left. There's vivid stuff with regards to that, too. There's nothing bad
00:22:26about that, but just have something vivid, and vivid stuff can cost money. It generally does.
00:22:31So, I think spending money to buy dopamine is a good deal in life because when you have enough
00:22:37dopamine, you're not existentially concerned about meaning, right? When you're happy,
00:22:42say, what's the meaning of life? Well, be happy so that you don't worry about meaning.
00:22:47I mean, nobody has an absolutely fantastic day where everything goes right and then says,
00:22:53well, what's the meaning of all this? Meaning is the smoke that comes out and stings your eyes
00:23:00when you are cratered from a lack of happiness, a lack of dopamine, right?
00:23:05And so, to avoid the question of the meaning of life, have vivid, positive,
00:23:10productive experiences and you won't have to worry about meaning. It won't even cross your mind.
00:23:17Nobody has a great orgasm and right in the middle of the orgasm, like, yes, but what's the meaning
00:23:21of all this? Not that there's a bad orgasm, but you know what I mean. So, hopefully that helps.
00:23:36All right, so somebody asks, is woke a violation of UPB? And if it is, can you make an argument
00:23:40against woke using UPB? Or is it evolutionary that most people find it repulsive? So,
00:23:48woke is just part of the late cycle of a combination of freedom and coercion. So,
00:23:55freedom allows people to generate wealth. The capacity to generate wealth relies upon inequality
00:24:02in capital, right? You should give your money to Elon Musk rather than somebody who's bad at
00:24:09business because Elon Musk will multiply that capital with his sheer intergalactic competence.
00:24:15So, you should give your money to Elon Musk. But of course, since Elon Musk is a magic capital
00:24:19creator or increaser, then lots of people want to give money to Elon Musk, which means that Elon
00:24:26Musk is very wealthy. And so, a certain amount of freedom allows a meritocracy, right? Freedom
00:24:32is meritocracy. So, you end up with a small number of very wealthy people as a result of freedom.
00:24:40You can have equality or you can have freedom. You can't have both. So, then what happens is
00:24:47there's an evolutionary strategy that arises in the free market when people become wealthy,
00:24:55and that is whining, bitching, complaining, nagging, and playing the victim, right?
00:25:00It's not fair. It's a younger sibling strategy, right? And it's fine when you're a younger
00:25:05sibling. If the older sibling gets more, you have to raise a fuss and kick and fuss and complain
00:25:10and so on, right? Because you have to make sure you get your share because the older kids will
00:25:14get more because they're bigger and stronger. So, that's totally fine as a kid, right? But
00:25:28what happens is when wealth gets concentrated, then it becomes highly profitable in conjunction
00:25:33with the state to complain about inequality. Because then, the complaints about inequality
00:25:43are one thing, but the complaints about inequality plus the state, since the number of poor people
00:25:49outnumber the number of rich people, like tenants outnumber landlords by definition, right?
00:25:56So, the mob, through its numbers, either implicitly through the state or explicitly
00:26:03through pitchforks and torches and go and steal and kill from the rich guy,
00:26:10they threaten, right? The minority of productive people are threatened by the majority of resentful
00:26:14people. So, freedom breeds meritocracy, breeds a concentration of wealth in the hands of the
00:26:22few amazingly productive people. And then, the strategy is to complain about inequality
00:26:30so that the rich people will bribe you not to attack them, right? So, whenever a politician
00:26:36says, well, we want the rich have to pay their fair share, right? That provokes
00:26:44ancestral memories of rich people being killed for their money.
00:26:48Oh, okay. Here you go. Here you go, angry mob. Here's some money.
00:26:53Here's some money. Just don't kill me, right?
00:26:59And this is why capitalism breeds socialism and communism with the state as the adjunct, right?
00:27:06So, that's the cycle. So, then what happens is if you bribe people to be unsuccessful and not
00:27:21attack you, then you just pay more people to be unsuccessful and threatened to attack you,
00:27:26which is why on the left, it's all about, oh, you know, the wealthy have gotten wealthier
00:27:31and they need to pay their fair share. It's an absolute statement of give us your shit,
00:27:38or we'll run you out of town or kill you, right? If you have a successful store,
00:27:45organized crime might show up and say, you know, it's a nice store here. It'd be a shame if
00:27:49something happened to it, but we can protect you from something happening to it if you just pay us
00:27:52$5,000 a month or whatever it is, right? So, the moment you get successful people,
00:27:58a resource allocation or reallocation strategy emerges, which is to complain about inequality
00:28:04with the implicit threat of bribe us, pay us off, or we'll chase you out of town or kill you,
00:28:11right? And the sophists always arise to complain and they say, look, there's this giant office
00:28:17tower, this vertical ice cube tray of pomp, circumstance and capitalist greed. And look,
00:28:23there's somebody who's living in a cardboard box at the bottom of the giant glass tower of
00:28:29capitalist greed and it's so unfair and it's so wrong. And it's just, you know,
00:28:33just take a little bit from these guys, give it to this guy, right?
00:28:40Yeah. Paying a fair share is code for a foundational threat against the productive,
00:28:44right? Because the reality is the rich pay most of the tax. Wealthy people pay most of the taxes.
00:28:52And it's horrendous. It's horrendous the way it goes, right?
00:28:59So, woke is demanding equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity. And woke emerges,
00:29:05right? This is why when you have a state as the center of your society, economic freedom leads to
00:29:13tyranny. Now, in the past, the way they solved this, and I'm not talking morally,
00:29:22I'm just talking practically, is that the rich were the aristocracy and they could just kill you
00:29:35in general, right? So, that's how they defended their wealth was just with violence.
00:29:45But when you have capitalists, it's not the same kind of thing, right? So, of course,
00:29:48the capitalists, the expensive, the high-end capitalists will work with the state to try
00:29:52and protect their interests and so on. But in general, the wealthier you get,
00:30:05the more resentment is targeted against you, right? And this is, of course, the result of
00:30:12foundational economic illiteracy, right? That if you take away resources from the most productive
00:30:18people, your economy will collapse because most people do not increase capital in any substantial
00:30:28way. Most people do not have the weird, freaky brilliance to increase capital. They don't
00:30:40start businesses that are very successful, right? They don't invest in things that have a high rate
00:30:45of return because of massive productivity. The number of very, very productive people
00:30:50in society is very, very low. They have magic abilities, like the people with the green thumb.
00:30:56Some farmers can get 10 times the productivity out of their fields. They're just obsessed about
00:31:00it. They work at it. They're relentlessly curious. They experiment like crazy. So,
00:31:05there are some people with this green thumb. They can just produce amazing stuff.
00:31:12And because they can produce amazing stuff, they can bid more for the land. And so,
00:31:20they end up with more land. And then what happens is the people who used to work the land,
00:31:24who were just not skilled, or not curious, or not brilliant, or not innovative, and it's no
00:31:28fault, right? It's just scattered among the population as a whole. So, they end up that
00:31:33we used to own the land, man. Now, we just work the land. I used to have these 20 acres. Now,
00:31:39I just work for Daddy Warbucks up there on the hill. And then people come along and say,
00:31:43hey, man, he stole your land. It wasn't fair. It wasn't right. They just provoke this resentment
00:31:48because in a successful, around a successful capitalist, people go from
00:31:53capitalists to workers, especially in the realm of farming, right?
00:31:58So, let's say you and I are in competition for land. You're 10 times more productive than I am
00:32:03with the land. So, you can at least offer five times more or twice more. You can certainly outbid
00:32:08me, right? You can outbid me. If I can only get $100,000 worth of crops out of the land,
00:32:14but you can get a million dollars, then you could outbid me. And you can also come to me,
00:32:20and you can say to me, sell me your land, right? Sell me your land. I'll give you three times
00:32:28what it's worth or five times what it's worth, and they can make that money back very quickly.
00:32:32So, when you're around one of these magic producing people, then you go from owner to
00:32:40renter. You go from capitalist to worker. You go from entrepreneur to wage earner.
00:32:52And generally, you'll make more, right? So, what happens though is that you resent.
00:33:03It appears to be magic. It appears to be magic. And look, we've all seen this.
00:33:08I mean, you watch John Bonham playing his double guitar at the height of his powers in the 70s.
00:33:14It's weird. It's freaky. I don't understand it. I do not. I mean, I remember learning how to play
00:33:20guitars like these short stubby fingers, and it hurts, man. It's uncomfortable. So,
00:33:26you see people playing this, and to me, it's incomprehensible. Like, how do you know what
00:33:31to play? Especially jazz musicians. It's a weird kind of magic. It's a weird kind of magic, right?
00:33:37I don't understand it. But, you know, there's people who
00:33:42look at what I do, and they don't understand it. It's incomprehensible to them, or it's kind of
00:33:46natural to me. So, when you're around these kinds of people, like Freddie Mercury sitting in a bath
00:33:51in Munich, and the tune to Crazy Little Thing Called Love just kind of pops into his head,
00:33:55and he records it. I mean, I tried writing a couple of songs when I was a teenager too, and
00:34:06yeah, it's not easy, man. It's not easy, and it wasn't particularly fun for me,
00:34:10and I didn't particularly enjoy it, so on, right? So, there's just people. It seems magic. It seems
00:34:15like bizarre. Now, of course, religious people have, well, it's a gift from God, right? It's a
00:34:22God-given gift. You hear this about singers, right? What was it, Sweeney Christmas or Christmas
00:34:27Sweeney or something? I was watching the other night this woman who was on a British talent show
00:34:32with an absolutely stunningly ethereal, angelic, you would say God-given voice and presence and
00:34:39talent, and just amazing. Amazing. So, yeah, if somebody can look this up and get me her actual
00:34:47name, I don't want to disrespect the woman, and she was in her, I think she was in her mid-late
00:34:5120s, and she'd sung on cruise ships and done this and that, but had never had her break,
00:34:55and she was just absolutely glorious. She took a song that's kind of bad, in my view,
00:35:00tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow, you'll love today, and she just brought that thing to
00:35:04life and sent 80,000 volts through it and just made it absolutely electric and powerful. Songs
00:35:11you've heard a million times before with an amazing singer, it's like you're hearing again
00:35:16for the first time, and it really was amazing. Let me just get her name.
00:35:30What was her name? Come on, you can search. Sydney Christmas, S-Y-D-N-I-E, Christmas,
00:35:38Sydney Christmas. She won the 17th series of Britain's Got Talent in 2024, and she was
00:35:48stunning, absolutely stunning. Somebody's saying this is happening right now with the popular
00:35:54streamer Kai Sinat, he does crazy streams and raises the bar, many streamers are mad,
00:35:58and saying that he's making being a streamer much harder. Was he the one, somebody said,
00:36:03hey, streaming is tough, streaming is hard, and it's funny because I won't particularly talk to
00:36:11that, but I will say that if a successful streamer, let me just see here, if a successful streamer
00:36:27says that it's hard to do, that's absolutely valid, right? Yeah, I can't find it. Of course,
00:36:34that person just got mocked, right? Oh man, you just sit down and you yap into a microphone,
00:36:40I mean, that's easy. I remember going to see Chris DeBerg, I've seen him three times or
00:36:46whatever, great, great live performer, and Chris DeBerg was like, oh, this is just so easy,
00:36:52you just stand and yell in the microphone. I remember Roger Waters when he was talking about
00:36:56touring, doing The Wall, he's like, this is easy, you know, like, hey, raising a toddler,
00:37:01that's hard, this is just easy, this is just like second nature, right?
00:37:06So people are mad. So being a successful streamer is hard.
00:37:12Being a successful streamer is hard. And I don't mean that it's hard for the people who do it,
00:37:17but it's a difficult and challenging skill set. And the people who were like, oh, talk to the guys
00:37:25who were like, digging gold out of the ground or talk to this or talk to that. And it's like,
00:37:30but hard doesn't mean physically difficult. Yes, you're just sitting there and clicking and right,
00:37:35but it's hard to engage with the audience. You've got to multitask, you've got to be original,
00:37:39you've got to make jokes, you've got to self-censor because you don't want to say something
00:37:42that's going to get you in too much trouble. There's a whole lot of processing that's going on
00:37:47that is not easy because a lot of people would much rather stream than work at a nine to five.
00:37:56Right? So if it's a desirable job and very few people can succeed at it, then by definition,
00:38:02it's not easy. Right? If it's a desirable job and very few people succeed at it,
00:38:08then by definition, it's not easy. Now it may be easy for the people to whom it comes naturally,
00:38:16but it's not an easy job. Otherwise everyone would do it. Right? Otherwise everyone would do it.
00:38:29Wow. Okay. Sorry. A lot of chats here. A lot of chats later over.
00:38:38All right. Steph, not sure if I can ask a Bitcoin question in the stream,
00:38:42so please ignore if off topic, but I buy Bitcoin, but I would like to invest my 401k
00:38:46also so I can use my company match, but they disallow that obviously.
00:38:52Obviously, where does the next question come up? I work Roth, RIAs can't buy Bitcoin,
00:38:57so I'm trying to explore investments that are impacted by its value and then...
00:39:05Okay. Now, sorry, that's investment advice, which I not only
00:39:09can't do, but wouldn't do even if I could, because you need to make your own decisions about that.
00:39:15All right. I buy tactical stuff I don't really need. It's a disease. Luckily,
00:39:19I have a wedding to plan and a budget to keep and a fiance with a death stare.
00:39:24Do not spend too much on your wedding, man. Do not spend too much on your wedding.
00:39:29Do not, because that is a shit test. Do not spend too much on your... Oh, honey,
00:39:38I'll give you anything you want. It's your dream day. Oh my God. No, no, no, no. Do not do that.
00:39:44Do not do that. For a lot of women, it's a power play. For a lot of women, it's a power play,
00:39:52and they're begging you to say no. They're begging you to say no.
00:40:00All right. The movie Watchmen has a good quote about the past getting brighter when the mother
00:40:03looks back fondly on a traumatic experience that resulted in the birth of her daughter.
00:40:10Yeah. All right. So, a lot of topics about... Oh, are these repeating? It looks like they're
00:40:17repeating. Excellent. Good job. Is it moral to invest in companies that profit from government
00:40:22contracts? I don't... In particular, I don't care about purity stuff. I mean,
00:40:30I don't think it's particularly wise to invest in... I don't think it's wise in particular or moral
00:40:40to invest in companies that are straight up like war profiteers. That's not particularly great for
00:40:48me. So, yeah, it is hard to be a streamer. It's rare to be a good singer, right? Really,
00:40:58really good singers are rare because it's not just the voice. You usually have to have the look.
00:41:03You've got to have the passion, the commitment, the theatrical style. You've got to have the
00:41:07emotional connection. You've got to be able to tell a story through the song. A really good singer
00:41:11is not common. But if you say, oh, come on, man, you just sing for like an hour and a half,
00:41:19three times a week. That's easy. It's like, no, no, it's not. I mean, there was an old Dr. Phil.
00:41:25I'm actually off Dr. Phil these days as a whole, but I remember there was an old Dr. Phil thing
00:41:30where his grandmother was like, well, you only work an hour a day. What do you do with the rest
00:41:34of your time? Show's on only an hour a day. So, less productive, less intelligent people
00:41:42view the productivity of the productive geniuses as,
00:41:51it's magic, it's unfair, and I get that it's kind of unfair. I get it. It is kind of unfair,
00:41:57right? How much of the value that you have in life did you specifically earn through your own
00:42:11free will and choices? Right? I have a pleasant speaking voice. I did not earn that. Now,
00:42:18I've taken voice training. I went to theater school. I've taken some singing training,
00:42:22which is good for general voice control. I can maintain the instrument and so on.
00:42:26I have a little bit of an accent. I'm a decent looking guy and so on, right? So, I didn't earn
00:42:31these things. I mean, you can say, well, I maintain my weight and exercise and that helps a little
00:42:36bit, whatever, right? But my IQ is 80 plus percent genetic, right? My intelligence is born with,
00:42:46didn't earn, right? So, when you look at all of the things that you have that bring value
00:42:54to the world and you say, what are the things that I am responsible to,
00:43:03that I'm directly, I'm not responsible for my intelligence. Now, I am responsible for some of
00:43:06the integrity and the focus in which I apply my intelligence to, to try and create additional
00:43:10virtue. So, there are definitely things that you can be proud of, but it's like height. Height is
00:43:15100 percent genetic, you know, barring starvation or whatever, right? But height is like 100 percent
00:43:19genetic. So, if you're tall, to take pride in height, you know, like everybody knows that guys
00:43:33with great hair, and I guess women too, but for guys, because the alternative is bald, guys with
00:43:38great hair are often kind of snobby and arrogant. And they literally believe that they have some
00:43:44sort of significant value because some ape-like protein strands grow out of their forehead.
00:43:51It's really, it's really pathetic, but women do this with looks as well. She's got a great figure
00:43:55and she thinks that, that may, but she didn't invent lust. She didn't invent hormones. She
00:44:00didn't invent male desire. She didn't invent her figure. And now, again, she works to maintain it
00:44:05and that's a value, I suppose, but one of the reasons she works to maintain it is it's a great
00:44:09figure to begin with, right? So, the sort of bare-forked animal, something I really remember
00:44:17from studying at London University, I still remember the name of the professor, but studying
00:44:23King Lear, you know, King Lear goes from pomp and vanity and arrogance and dictatorial natures out
00:44:29into nature's elements in the wind, and he's the bare-forked animal. What is man but this
00:44:33bare-forked animal? Who are you outside of the accidental, outside of the genetic,
00:44:38outside of the inherited, outside of the unchosen? I didn't choose my race. I didn't choose my sex.
00:44:44I didn't choose my height. I didn't choose my eye color. I didn't choose my accent. I didn't
00:44:49choose my voice. I didn't choose my intelligence, right? Who am I that is not inherited, accidental,
00:44:58or unchosen? It's a big-ass question, man. You answer that question, that's the beginning of
00:45:04real virtue. You answer that question, that's the beginning of real virtue.
00:45:11Somebody says, why do listeners claim to have difficulty financially supporting you
00:45:17through subscriptions or donations? If they listened to you, they'd have gotten bitcoin and
00:45:20easily afford to support you. Some people are new listeners, right? So, the greats make something
00:45:27difficult look easy, for sure. Yes, and that's the other thing, too, is that when you're really,
00:45:31really great at something, then you make it look easy, and then other people want to replicate it.
00:45:35They can't. They get frustrated, right? My brother is low class and thinks that real men do hard
00:45:40labor and didn't think anything intellectual was serious. Always thought what I did was too simple
00:45:46and I don't think I deserve to make money. My parents sided with him and both sabotaged me
00:45:49throughout my life. I didn't realize they were sabotaging me until it was brought up to me by
00:45:55someone who cared enough about me. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it is a low IQ thing to think that the factory
00:46:03guy who makes the good, right? This is back to the song Rehumanize Yourself by The Police.
00:46:09I work all day at the factory making a machine that's not for me. It must be a reason that I can't see, right?
00:46:17Right.
00:46:18Well, it is the organization and pointing of the physical labor, a genuine market need, and profitable
00:46:30enterprise that is the brilliance, right? I mean, you can go carry around a bunch of plates in the
00:46:37forest and make no money at all, but if you build a restaurant, you have somebody builds a restaurant
00:46:40around and puts the right menu with the right approach, the right decor, the right, like,
00:46:43investment, the right advertising, the right, you name it, right? Then you can make money carrying
00:46:50plates of food around, right? So do you think, somebody says, so do you think that streamers
00:46:53say it's very easy compared to a nine to five? Are they virtue signaling to win over the audience?
00:46:58No, no, no, no. Everybody who's successful knows about the resentment of the less successful,
00:47:07right? Everybody who's successful knows about the resentment of the less successful. I mean,
00:47:15that's really a lot to do with my deplatforming was the resentment of the less successful,
00:47:22right? If you, I mean, this goes back to, I used to go to this camp, Camp Bolton,
00:47:27sometimes for a month or six weeks over the course of the summer. It was very, very cheap
00:47:32back then. I got subsidies because my family was so broke and there were these dances.
00:47:42There were a lot of disappointments in that, although the camp was fun as all,
00:47:45but there were these dances where this is one of the first times at the age of sort of 13 or 14
00:47:50or wherever I would go that, and I was actually taken back there for a photo shoot because I was
00:47:54considered a somewhat attractive young man. But anyway, so at the age of 13 or 14 is when I first
00:48:02asked girls to dance, right? And I got girls to dance with me and my friends who were up there,
00:48:10who were less attractive, one of them came by and elbowed me in the thigh really hard, right?
00:48:20And this was considered funny, and I basically half folded over, right? Because it was really
00:48:25painful. It's tough to stand on a really bruised thigh. So I understand that, right?
00:48:31So he needed to make me look bad because he couldn't compete. So there's that resentment,
00:48:36right? I had a family member I was much more attractive to when I was growing up. He had
00:48:46really bad acne, and he was sabotaging with the girls all the time. Can't compete, sabotage,
00:48:53right? So you have to appease the mob in order to continue to be successful.
00:49:09So that's not good. I mean, it's inevitable, right? Because that is nonsense.
00:49:17Yeah, yeah, the communist propaganda of the US. The factory workers make all the products,
00:49:22and the people in the offices are just freeloading. They're just freeloading.
00:49:26Yeah, for sure. I mean, how do you be the most attractive without
00:49:32getting the rage resentment of the less competent mob?
00:49:41Yes, the smugness when you ask some 40s guys dating 20-year-old women if he kept his hair.
00:49:46Oh, yes. I'm fine with that, but let's not pretend you earned it. Let's not pretend that
00:49:51you got to keep your hair because of some God-given virtues or something. It's just
00:49:5610% of guys keep their hair into their old age, and all four of them happen to be in the Beatles.
00:50:04So although John Deacon of Queen went bald, but you could see that poofy hair vanishing.
00:50:10All right. Is a coffee date or lunch a good idea for a first date or maybe invite a woman
00:50:17to an upcoming gala or dinner? I think coffee date is a bit cheap,
00:50:23and it's not a very romantic environment. I would do a lunch as a whole.
00:50:29Kids would do that in school, kick you in the leg to give you a charley horse happen whenever you
00:50:33got a girl's attention. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Sabotage is essential in the sexual marketplace,
00:50:39right? So they did this study where they asked women to suggest to other women how short they
00:50:48should cut their hair. Without fail, the women suggested to the most attractive women that they
00:50:57cut their hair the shortest. Without fail. The more attractive she was, the more women said,
00:51:05oh, you should cut your hair short. It's a perfect bob for you. This is why a lot of times,
00:51:11there's a lot of shit I don't understand about women, but this gives me a tip. So one of the
00:51:14things I now understand about women is, have you ever talked to a woman who's gone to a hairdresser
00:51:19and she comes out and she's in tears because her hair is now too short?
00:51:26Right? Have you ever heard that happen? I can't believe she cut it so short and in tears,
00:51:30and it's going to take months to grow back and blah, blah, blah. Well, that's because I think
00:51:33a lot of female hairdressers sabotage their clients because the clients are more attractive
00:51:38than they are. And it's just an instinct. Like the unattractive women will now suggest to women
00:51:45that they cut their hair short, that they dye it blue, that they get nose rings and shit that men
00:51:50hate. I'm not going fishing. I don't need you to look like a tackle box. It's not a thing.
00:51:56So, yeah, there's infrasexual competition. And this is another thing too. So a super productive
00:52:04guy is genetically going to have more kids, right? And so when you take his resources from
00:52:11him and give it to you through resentment and explicit or implicit threats of not-so-peaceful
00:52:17income redistribution, then you're taking resources from the more productive person,
00:52:21giving it to the less productive person, which means that you are taking reproductive
00:52:26capacity from the more productive person, taking that away and giving it to the less productive
00:52:31person. So, I mean, so you've got all these unattractive women going on sex strikes over
00:52:45Trump, which is like me going on a strike against getting a Mohawk as a hairdo.
00:52:50Yeah. Pretty tragic. Pretty tragic. All right.
00:53:05Baby, take off your coat real slow. All right. Is it okay to modify yourself like surgeries
00:53:12or implants to get an edge on people? I would never in a million, billion,
00:53:17zillion years personally would never ever date a woman who did plastic surgery or breast implants
00:53:23or butt lifts or anything like that. That is just so much of a red flag. I can't see the person
00:53:29beyond the wraparound Chinese communist parade. So I would not in a million years get anything
00:53:41like that. I mean, I think fake boobs are just repulsive. I think they just look weird and gross.
00:53:47And I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I've never touched any of that. And I just think
00:53:53it would be completely bizarre. Like a basketball under a blanket is not my definition of sexy.
00:53:59And I mean, obviously, I don't know, a nose job, if you've got some fierce schnonker,
00:54:05you know, like, uh, Hey, you, uh, your nose was on time, but you were five minutes late. Okay.
00:54:09Whatever. Right. But if you start wearing a toupee, I won't judge. I am not going to start
00:54:13wearing a toupee. Oh my gosh. Can you imagine, can you imagine that'd be terrible? So, uh, I
00:54:21wouldn't, um, I wouldn't date anyone who had any significant body modifications. I never dated a
00:54:27woman with a tattoo. I've never dated a woman with any piercings other than her ears. I've never dated
00:54:33a woman who wears a lot of makeup. I've never dated anyone like that. Uh, I just think that's
00:54:38weird. And it is a sign of deep neurosis and insecurity, right? If it's a good job,
00:54:45it looks completely natural. I don't know. I mean, I don't because it's it's it's like,
00:54:53because what you're doing is you're messing with the whole body as a whole, right?
00:54:57So a slim woman with big boobs is virtually impossible, right? A slender woman with big
00:55:04boobs is virtually impossible. It can happen, right? But in general, if you add size to the
00:55:09boobs and it doesn't change the body as a whole, then it just looks off. Everything just looks off
00:55:14because we have an instinctive sense of what fits together from a body standpoint, right?
00:55:24So do that for April fools. I don't think it would fool too many people.
00:55:29Uh, yes, Kamala Harris supporters are now doing something called a 4B strategy after Trump won,
00:55:38which includes shaving their hair and looking as unattractive as possible as some sort of spite.
00:55:42Yeah. Yeah, I get that for sure. I get that. And it's really, really sad. Thank you,
00:55:49Jeremy. It's really, it's really sad that all they have to offer the world is celibacy.
00:55:58So Christian conservatives are celebrating the Trump win by having a lot of kids and leftist
00:56:03women are going on a sex strike. Nature is healing. Nature is healing.
00:56:09Nature is healing.
00:56:20And it's going to be very hard for them to maintain this because, uh, women and men too,
00:56:29okay. Right. But women like male attention because the women who didn't care about male attention
00:56:34didn't do what was necessary to please men and their genes did not reproduce. Right.
00:56:38So, uh, women like male attention and a lot of the ways they get, like you can get male attention
00:56:46by being a quality person and a great conversationalist and virtuous and funny and curious
00:56:51and all of that. Right. But a lot of these women get male attention through offering sex. And
00:57:00therefore they think that the greatest harm they can do to men is to withhold sex. Okay.
00:57:04So then if they withhold sex and they make themselves ugly, they are setting themselves
00:57:11up for a massive depression because are they going to be the kind of women who can get
00:57:18quality men to pay attention to them? No, no.
00:57:27So they're going to find that they are going to, they're courting massive depression
00:57:32by a withdrawal of attention. And so what they're trying to do is they're trying to get
00:57:37a female solidarity instead of male romantic attention. Right. And this is, this is a very
00:57:44dark road for women to try and get the approval of dysfunctional women rather than romantic
00:57:49interest from functional men. It's a grave, it's a grave coven like a disaster. Right.
00:57:55All right. Sorry. A couple of other questions here. Why is a breast implant fundamentally
00:58:04different from a dental implant? What? Sorry. I'm not quite understanding this.
00:58:12Why is a breast implant fundamentally different from a dental implant?
00:58:17Okay. I don't, I mean, you can answer this for yourself, can't you? A breast implant is putting
00:58:22something in that wasn't there in the first place. A dental implant is replacing something
00:58:26that got removed for medical reasons. Not having a breast implant is not bad for your health.
00:58:33Sometimes having a breast implant is bad for your health. Having a tooth replaced that fell
00:58:37out or was pulled out for some medical reason prevents the other teeth from drifting and
00:58:41additional problems and lack of support from the other teeth. So it's not bad for your health.
00:58:47So you're replacing something that was already functioning with something that's exactly the same
00:58:51as opposed to, and that you need for your health and all of that. So I don't, I don't understand
00:58:57why. Do braces count? Well, no braces are important because if you have really crooked teeth,
00:59:04then it can be hard to clean and can cause dental problems.
00:59:11Yeah. With bad teeth, you can't eat. Yeah.
00:59:16Yeah. Women love male attention. Of course. I mean, they should. And we care, men care whether
00:59:23they're attractive to women and women care whether they're attractive to men. Of course.
00:59:28Feeling that that's the kind of slavery is kind of incomprehensible to me. It really is.
00:59:32I'm so enslaved by all the biology. Like it's, it's pillaging from the past. It's one thing I
00:59:38really hate is this pillaging from the past shit. It's UPB in a nutshell, right? Oh, sorry. The
00:59:44final question I got to with regards to the woke stuff. Hey, you can have as much resentment as you
00:59:48want. You can even go around talk. It's free speech to go around and complaining that the
00:59:52rich guys have stolen everything from the poor guys. It's false and demonic, but it's not evil
00:59:57to be wrong. But when woke leads to the feeling, see what woke wants to do is say the rich guys
01:00:05stole from you to justify stealing quote back, right? That's all. That's all. That's all it's
01:00:11about. It's justifying theft and aggression by pretending it's self-defense or the recovery of
01:00:15property that was unjustly taken. So it is a justification for the initiation of the use of
01:00:19force. And therefore it is, uh, it is wrong. It is wrong. So you want a bell curve of attractiveness,
01:00:29right? You don't want somebody who's totally slovenly. You know, I think the guy with no
01:00:33neck and a neck beard who, you know, lives in his sweat pants and, and doesn't brush his teeth much
01:00:38or right. So, and doesn't wash his hair much. And right. So you, you don't want someone who's
01:00:42slovenly. You want someone in the middle, right? The Aristotelian mean, you also don't want
01:00:46somebody. Okay. I remember working with this girl up North. We had to go into town to pick up some
01:00:50groceries and she needed an hour to put her face on. I'm like, we're just going to a little town
01:00:54to a one horse town to a tiny grocery store to get some groceries. You don't need to spend like,
01:00:59so you don't want that. You want somebody in the middle, right? Somebody, somebody cares about
01:01:06their appearance enough to be presentable and attractive, but not somebody who can't leave the
01:01:09house without 14 pounds of makeup on. Right. Cause that's, uh, both of them, one is depressed
01:01:15and the other is hysterical. Right. Uh, Steph, what do you think of the women who require that
01:01:21their husbands and sons sit down on the toilet while peeing? To me, it makes rational sense,
01:01:25but it feels like the men are getting castrated. Is that a thing? I think that the women say,
01:01:30can you put the toilet seat down? But I don't, they require the husband to sit down peeing. Oh,
01:01:36so they don't, there's no splash damage. Yeah. I, I, I, I've never, I've never had that in a
01:01:42relationship. Uh, so I, I can't really speak to that, but I would just laugh at that. Right.
01:01:46I would just laugh at that. I've just like, well, I mean, what are you talking about?
01:01:51I'll, I'll pee the way that I want to pee. Thank you very much. And of course I will work to not
01:01:57make a mess and blah, blah, blah, for sure. I get all of that. But yeah, I, I find that, uh,
01:02:03I just think that's ridiculous. I, I just, it would be funny to me. That would be just
01:02:08something that would be funny and kind of ridiculous. All right.
01:02:18Teeth are not a sexual display. Uh, yeah, they are. Teeth are a sexual display for sure.
01:02:27Yeah. Um, teeth, teeth are absolutely a sexual display and good, healthy teeth and even teeth
01:02:36and white teeth. And, you know, it shows self-care, it shows health and so on. So yeah,
01:02:41it's absolutely is a sexual display. Uh, I could never understand why rather heavy women would
01:02:48spend hours every night doing makeup. I always thought it would make more difference to spend
01:02:51the time in the gym. Yeah. I remember having a significant disagreement with a friend of
01:02:54mine many years ago, uh, about a fat woman who'd obviously labored over her makeup. And I'm like,
01:02:58but why wouldn't you just spend that time and exercise? Like, why wouldn't you just do that?
01:03:03Right. Let's take all the people who were completely terrified of COVID and who hadn't
01:03:08gone to the gym or exercised in 10 years. And I'm like, I, I can't take your concerns over
01:03:13your health seriously. Like I just can't, I can't take paranoia about health seriously.
01:03:18If a person is unhealthy, right. Do you exercise? Do you get your blood work done? Do you get your
01:03:23checkups? Right. Do you check in on these things? Are you a healthy weight? Do you eat well?
01:03:27Right. So I, you know, that the people who said that other people were endangering them by not
01:03:34wearing masks when they themselves were a good 75 pounds overweight, it's like, nah,
01:03:39if you were that worried about your health as a whole, then you wouldn't be in that situation.
01:03:44Right. So now it was just, I mean, as you know, it was just a bullying thing, right.
01:03:57It was just a bullying thing. All right. Let me get to your last questions,
01:04:02comments, issues, challenges, problems, whatever is on your mind.
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01:04:36And, uh, let's just wait for the Ozempic lawsuits to start.
01:04:42It's my particular opinion, not medical advice, just my particular opinion.
01:04:47All right. Uh, so let's see here.
01:04:53Saw your interview on Bitchute. Have you done other interviews recently? I don't remember that
01:04:56one on your page. Well, you're going to have to narrow that down just a smidge, my friend.
01:05:01Uh, but I did five hours with Keith Knight. Um, I did a review of my novel,
01:05:06the present with Duke Pesta. Uh, but no, I haven't, uh, I haven't really done, uh,
01:05:11interviews lately. Um, I mean, I suppose that these are kind of interviews and that you guys
01:05:16are asking me questions that I'm answering them. So, and don't forget FDR URL dot com slash tick
01:05:25tock FDR URL dot com slash tick tock would be, uh, uh, it's a good, it's a good thing to follow.
01:05:31It's a good thing to follow. All right. Let me just see if I had anything interesting
01:05:40with regards to saved bookmarks, uh, bookmarks, uh, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
01:05:52Oh, and it's so funny, of course, to me and entirely predictable, entirely predictable.
01:05:59Steph, do you think you'll see another huge invention like the internet in your lifetime?
01:06:03Uh, yeah, yeah. Um, I mean, it's happening right now with AI, right? It's happening right now with
01:06:11AI. So I of course was Steph, have you ever lost a significant amount of writing when you wrote a
01:06:24book through file corruption or deletions, et cetera? Uh, yeah, yeah. And, and, and a few,
01:06:29a few bits of crypto and a few bits of crypto, but what are you going to do? Right. Um, so
01:06:42on, uh, I was rabidly attacked for saying to people that you should not,
01:06:52you don't have to be in abusive relationships, even with parents, right? The immediate family,
01:06:57if the relationship was continually abusive.
01:07:02Oh, do more of your scrolling X and commenting on the timeline. Okay. Thank you. I will,
01:07:06I will absolutely do that. That's fun. That's fun. So I will absolutely do that. And thank you for
01:07:10the, uh, for the reminder. Right. So, uh, remember back in, this is back in 2008 or something,
01:07:16my first sort of in, in the, um, in the media was, you know, that I'm just a terrible evil guy
01:07:21for saying to people that you don't have to spend time with abusive people, even if they are
01:07:25parents, right? Never told anyone to leave their family. And it apparently was just absolutely
01:07:29appalling. And now, uh, all over the left is cutting people off for voting, right?
01:07:38Cutting people off for voting, voting Trump. Right.
01:07:45And that's, um, crazy cutting men off from sexual activity, cutting boyfriends off, uh,
01:07:53ending relationships, breaking up with people, not seeing your grandparents, not seeing your
01:07:57parents, not seeing your kids, cutting people off for political differences. Apparently now that's
01:08:02fine. That's totally fine. When I talked about not being in abusive relationships,
01:08:07that was just evil and culty. But now if somebody votes different, boy, they are just evil. And,
01:08:15uh, I don't know. It's, uh, it's very sad. So there are only 2 million Bitcoin left on all
01:08:28crypto exchanges worth $150 billion. What happens if a country tries to front run Donald Trump and
01:08:35buy $500 billion worth of Bitcoin? There are only 2 million Bitcoin left on all crypto exchanges,
01:08:41or it's less than 10% of the total, right? Isn't that wild that Kamala Harris raised a billion
01:08:49dollars and left a debt of $20 million. She paid a million dollars for Oprah's endorsement. I don't
01:08:56know how that's specifically in line with the absolute legality of the situation, but I'm no
01:09:00lawyer. Plus $100,000 for a set on the Call Her Daddy podcast so she didn't have to travel. Oh my
01:09:09gosh. Oh my gosh. It's wild. Oh, that's wild. This is interesting as well. And I did a podcast
01:09:25many, many, many years ago called The Joy of Anger. You can get that at FDRpodcasts.com.
01:09:30Somebody says, nobody talks about the angry stage of healing, the rage you feel when you realize
01:09:35how much and for how long you were taken advantage of, the absolute disgust you feel towards those
01:09:39who misled you. It comes in waves. Sometimes you feel healed and suddenly it hits you. Yeah. So
01:09:44anger is your body cranking up its defense against exploitation and evildoers. So yeah, Kamala Harris
01:09:53spent six figures just building the set for her appearance on Call Her Daddy. How did she plow
01:09:59through a billion dollars? Ah, well, you know, she's a big spending liberal, right? That is wild.
01:10:10Donald Trump plan to destroy and dismantle the censorship cartel. I got to tell you, that's
01:10:15pretty freaking tempting. I'm going to play, I'm going to put it here so you can look at it after
01:10:20the show, but you got to watch this, man. You got to watch this. If he's able to achieve this,
01:10:25man, I'm live. Man alive. That would be something. A digital bill of rights. No,
01:10:31you can't get deplatformed without due process and like just absolutely incredible stuff.
01:10:36Maybe even reform of section 230, which is a mixed bag, but nonetheless, holy crap.
01:10:43That is something else. Yeah. I don't know how you can pay for endorsements. Again,
01:10:48I'm no lawyer, but it doesn't seem quite right as a whole, but I'm again, I'm far from an expert
01:10:53in these things. I remember I was talking about body memory and I was talking about your gut sense
01:11:05and so on. So there's an interesting article that came out on nature.com, which says,
01:11:12we think that all memory is stored in the brain, but our study published today in Nature shows that
01:11:16all cells, even kidney cells can count, detect patterns, store memories and do so similarly to
01:11:21brain cells. Right? So the body remembers the body memory, your gut sense and all of that.
01:11:26That is, seems to be a thing. I mean, according to sort of the latest science.
01:11:35Somebody said, Patriot J says, not once have I seen a Republican brag about how they're cutting
01:11:39off their democratic friends and family. Yeah. Y'all think that's a virtue? Y'all think that's
01:11:45a virtue? I mean that they take their morals and values seriously, but you don't. I don't know how
01:11:52that to win. I don't know how people, right. BlackRocks, Bitcoin ETF is officially bigger
01:11:58than its gold ETF, 33.2 billion assets in just 10 months. Men scored higher than women on emotional
01:12:05stability across countries, even more so in highly individualistic society, societies. Yeah.
01:12:11Trump is proposing term limits for Congress. I don't know. Wouldn't that just mean that they
01:12:16pillage faster? I like this woman, Patriarchy Hannah. She's pretty funny. She says, I might
01:12:26make myself a vegetable platter and watch brainless TV while I fold laundry. My husband
01:12:29is outside in a storm, fissing a fence, securing stuff and pumping the drainage ditch because it's
01:12:34clogged. Is this oppression? Oh, it's a bitter meme. It's a picture of two people, a young man
01:12:43and a young woman in 1914. And the young woman is like, she's not allowed to go to university.
01:12:49And for the young man on the eve of World War I, he's not allowed to live.
01:12:56Did you know this ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. From this,
01:13:00we derive the modern day usage of 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 360 degrees
01:13:06in a circle. Very interesting. Key and Peale are these two black comedians. Incredibly funny,
01:13:17by the way. Incredibly funny. I'll give you guys a sketch to watch after. It's an escalation of
01:13:25macho Southern black food ordering. Absolutely hilarious. Absolutely hilarious.
01:13:34Well, it's not up to him. See, the problem is that how many really smart people are still
01:13:38openly Republican and available and willing to work in Washington, right? So, oh, please link
01:13:44to the nature article. Sure. I will get you the nature article. That is a reasonable request.
01:13:50Let me go up.
01:14:06All right.
01:14:11Ah, yes, here we go. Copy link address. Yeah, here we go. I will put this all over the map.
01:14:17They are hilarious, those two. Key and Peale. All right. There's your nature article. You should
01:14:22check it out. Yeah, body memory is very real. The idea that we can just, that all therapy occurs
01:14:26in the head, therapy and healing is as much physical as it is mental. Thoughts on if the
01:14:33life-changing profit days on Bitcoin are over? I don't believe so. I mean, I've said this for
01:14:38years. This is not investment advice. It's just my personal opinion. Make your own decisions.
01:14:41Do your own research. I said this probably 10 to 12 years ago that I view 750k US of Bitcoin,
01:14:52which is what, 10 times what it is now. That's my target in my head
01:14:56in some reasonable timeframe. So, that's my target. Again, just my opinion. Just my opinion.
01:15:05And a human foot.
01:15:11All right. Any other last questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems? All right.
01:15:30Yeah, it'll be interesting. It'd be interesting to see if there's any retroactive restoring of
01:15:34accounts under a digital bill of rights. It'd be very interesting. Very interesting.
01:15:42And this is why, to me, exercise and in particular weights for men is so therapeutic.
01:15:51It's so therapeutic because you're saying, I'm worth being strong and defended.
01:15:58I'm worth being strong and defended. I'm worth having some muscles. I'm worth being strong
01:16:01and defended. I'm worth moving through the world in a relatively powerful way. I'm worth it. I'm
01:16:07not under the control of people 10 times my size who can do whatever the hell they want to me
01:16:11whenever they want. Weights is absolutely therapeutic. Have you seen the new movie
01:16:20called The Heretic? It's called Heretic. And I would say the first two thirds are absolutely
01:16:29good. Hugh Grant. I don't mean to be a body shamer, but holy crap, man. Has he ever used
01:16:36face cream in his life? I mean, those are the kind of cheek wrinkles that fold space-time into
01:16:42another dimension. But it's not a bad movie. It's well-written. It's by the guys who do
01:16:48A Quiet Place. And to me, it gets kind of goofy towards the end, but the first two thirds,
01:16:55really good intellectual cat and mouse stuff. And the monopoly scene is just fantastic.
01:16:59Mind-blowing. Mind-blowing. A really, really great description of ideas and arguments.
01:17:04So I would recommend, I'll do a proper review this week, but I would recommend a movie called
01:17:10Heretic. You should go and check it out. Not necessarily for, it's not for kids. I don't know
01:17:15this 14A thing. It's not for kids. Not for kids. Not for teens, in my view. But all right. Let's
01:17:21see here. Anything else? All right. All of Kamala's supporters needed to be paid huge fees,
01:17:32but Trump's campaigned with him for free. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it wouldn't hugely surprise me if
01:17:42Biden's ceding to Kamala was just vengeance. It's just vengeance. Why do preachers always
01:17:47say we are living in the end of days? I love my life. I think we're living in blessed times.
01:17:51Yeah. Yeah. Well, anxiety breeds conformity to authority, right? Fear breeds conformity
01:17:58to authority, which is why the people who want to take over your life want to keep you continually
01:18:03afraid. So I hope that makes some sense. All right. Well, thank everyone for me,
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